That dark robed man had been the fourth level Purple Spirit whom battled Jun Wu Xie. A Purple Spirit at the fourth level would definitely be an Elder just below the Palace Lord but now, such a powerful pugilist had been reduced to a state where people would not be able to look at him squarely, as his limbs had been twisted up in weird angles, the joints all covered in purple and blue bruises.
Those eyes of his had swollen up to look like a goldfish’s, and the wounds upon his body were bleeding with dark tainted blood.
The other severely injured dark robed men were curled up together on the side, their bodies shaking. They had really been frightened out of their wits by what had happened earlier. Who would have thought that with just one elixir, it would be able to make a fourth level Purple Spirit taste a fate so much worse than death itself?
They had seen with their own eyes Jun Wu feeding that man with an elixir and Jun Wu had done nothing else after that. That man’s joints had then given out highly crisp cracks, where his joints had been forcibly snapped off, to lose all control over his bones and become completely helpless but to lie limply upon the ground while groaning in agony.
That kind of inhuman pain, was chilling enough just to watch.
They would rather die, than to have to experience such unimaginable torment!
“We’ve almost asked everything we should have asked. Let’s not waste any more time as the skies will brighten soon.” Fan Zhuo said as he looked at the skies outside the window and saw that the horizon was gradually lightening. They had battled for quite a long while this night and they had gotten quite a bit of information from the dark robed men. It should be enough.
“Alright. Should I end their misery quickly?” Qiao Chu asked as he squatted down to look at them, cracking his knuckles loudly. But he did not make any moves as he wished but instead swung his gaze over to look at Jun Wu Xie, seemingly asking for Jun Wu Xie’s opinion.
Jun Wu Xie looked at the group of dark robed who had been scared out of their wits. From the mouth of the leader among them, she had gathered that the men had indeed been sent here by Gu Ying. But there was one point that Jun Wu Xie felt to be highly suspicious. No matter how she hard she interrogated them about the origins of the group of dark robed men, she was not able to gain any conclusion. They had either clenched their jaws to refuse to speak, or they seemed to genuinely not know where they had come from. The only thing they knew was the objective they had come here for.
Looking at the skies outside, Jun Wu Xie knew that she could not drag on much longer. Before these dark robed men had arrived, she had used some special medicine to send all the youth into an unwakeable sleep. Now that the effects of the drug was fading off, everyone would soon wake up in shock under the strong stench of blood.
She wouldn’t want her own identity to be exposed at this juncture.
“Don’t kill them first, I still have some use for them.” An idea suddenly came into Jun Wu Xie’s mind. This bunch of dark robed men were undoubtedly doomed, but she felt that their deaths could be carried out in a different manner or method.
It could be considered as a “reciprocal gift” for someone.”
Volume 17
Chapter 1624: “Reciprocal Gift (1)”
When the first rays of sunlight spilled onto the ground, driving away the silence of night, the birds sang shrilly upon the branches and the temperature began to rise once more.
The youths in the Cloudy Brook Academy awoke from their dreams, and it was a little different from previous mornings, feeling that they had slept more soundly than before as they got out from bed, all prepared for a new day’s cultivation training. But those youths could faintly detect a strange scent permeating through the air and that scent smelled completely like the stench of blood.
Many of the youths opened their doors with trepidation as they gazed around towards the source of the scent.
Lin Hao Yu was feeling especially refreshed when he woke up, the exhaustion and torment he had been under over this period had caused him to be unable to sleep so soundly for a long time, an uninterrupted dreamless sleep till daybreak, which alleviated the depression he had been in for awhile by quite a bit. He made his bed and Lin Hao Yu then stood before his bronze mirror to check his dress, feeling highly satisfied with how he looked. He tugged at the corners of his clothes to straighten them out and after thinking he looked just perfect, he then went to the door and stretched his hand out to open it.
But in the instant that he opened the door, Lin Hao Yu was stunned. He saw a dense crowd of people surrounding just outside his door, everyone of their eyes filled with terror.
Lin Hao Yu creased up his brows slightly, not knowing why these people have crowded up outside his room’s door so early in the morning.
Before he could open his mouth to drive them away, a thick stench of blood suddenly shot up his nose. Lin Hao Yu subconsciously lowered his head and on the ground right before his door where everyone was backing away from, he saw a pile of gory bloody flesh!
The blood had already dried up a little as they stuck to the bits of torn and shredded flesh of unknown origin, piled up in layers like a little hill, blocking up the front of his door. The blood and gore staring at him right in his face immediately turned Lin Hao Yu’s face white!
It was not just the floor, as even his door was splashed with blood, a scarlet red.
At that moment, Lin Hao Yu was frightened so badly that his teeth began to chatter. Although his life had not been smooth sailing over the recent period but he still had never seen such a gory sight with so much blood before!
That sight of that huge pile of bloody flesh, made his head hum incessantly, where he did not even dare to imagine what that pile actually was exactly!
What else could be more terrifying than seeing such a pile right at your doorstep bright and early in the morning?
Was this a threat? Was it just to terrorize him? Or could this be a warning?
Lin Hao Yu had just woken up but he was feeling like he was trapped within a pitch black winter’s night where he could not see his hands before his face, the temperature in his body being sucked out of him completely, causing him to shake and tremble violently.
The faces of the youths surrounding the place were looking just as ugly in shade, feeling eternally grateful that that pile was not in front of their door but in front of Lin Hao Yu’s, where it was obvious to see that the person who dumped this pile here was only targeting Lin Hao Yu!
Everyone could not help but secretly guess in their hearts, just who could have been responsible for this?
Wouldn’t this mean that someone was after Lin Hao Yu’s life?
The same big question hovered within the minds of everyone there and the gazes directed upon Lin Hao Yu became strange. Even the disciples of the Blood Fiend Palace subconsciously took a few steps back, deeply afraid that they might be dragged into the trouble.
Although Lin Hao Yu was the grandson of an Elder in the Blood Fiend Palace, but he had obviously offended someone extraordinary. Who knew how powerful the enemy must be to be able to carry out such atrocities within the Cloudy Brook Academy?
Their future might be important to them, but their very own lives was even more important!
The youths who had usually stuck closely around Lin Hao Yu were now all secretly telling themselves that they must temporarily draw clear lines with Lin Hao Yu for now.
Volume 17
Chapter 1625: “Reciprocal Gift (2)”
The shade on Lin Hao Yu’s face became uglier and uglier as the whisperings of the surrounding crowd of youths made his heart grow weak, and his gaze appears highly panicked and flustered as he looked at the youths around him. Within the many pairs of distant eyes filled with all kinds of suspicions, Lin Hao Yu attempted to find the culprit, but ended up feeling everyone was suspect.
That pile of bloody flesh, had been like a rope, a noose around his neck that made it hard for him to breathe.
[Was it the Flame Demons Palac
e’s Qiao Chu?]
[Or was it someone from another palace?]
[Are they seeking to kill him?]
[No…..]
[He didn’t want to die…..]
Under the high anxiety and the intense beating his nerves were taking, Lin Hao Yu’s eyes suddenly rolled back in his head, to fall into a dead faint. And for the poor unfortunate Lin Hao Yu, at the moment that his body fell, not a single youth surrounding him then dared to go up to hold him up, but allowed his body to fall straight forward, right onto the pile of bloody flesh with a splat. A great splatter of the blood and gore flew right onto several youths who were standing a little closer, covering them with the disgusting gore, immediately eliciting a series of screams.
Among all that chaos, a tiny little figure walked past silently, looking through the gaps within the crowd, to see Lin Hao Yu collapsed in a dead faint within that pile of blood and gore.
Last night, after Jun Wu Xie and her companions subdued the group of dark robed men, she had come to know everything from the mouths of the dark robed men. She had met Gu Ying before and she had also guessed that Gu Ying might be suspicious of her identity. But Gu Ying must have paid her notice only because of Lin Hao Yu’s urging.
Considering the fact that Lin Hao Yu had “taken good care” of her so many times ever since she came to the Cloudy Brook Academy, Jun Wu Xie thought she should really reciprocate and send him a “gift” in return. The might of the Face of Sylvan was enough to tear those few Purple Spirit pugilists to complete shreds and those powerful Purple Spirits pugilists whom people revered and pursued incessantly had now ended up as a pile of ground meat before Lin Hao Yu’s door. As for what that pile of flesh had actually been before and what they had originated from, who could possibly know?
After having admired Lin Hao Yu’s reaction to her “gift, Jun Wu Xie then passed the crowd unhurriedly, to make her way towards the Spirit Mastery faculty, calm and composed like nothing had ever happened.
Lin Hao Yu fell ill, ill for no rhyme or reason, and it had happened very suddenly.
After having been greatly frightened by that pile of bloody flesh in the morning and then falling face flat into it, he was carried away under the orders of Gu Xin Yan whom people had rushed to bring over, and he had fallen ill. Or it should be said….. he lost his mind instead.
Lin Hao Yu fell so ill that he could not even get out of bed, his body at one moment cold and the next moment hot. He was delirious and his mouth just uttered strange things intermittently. Even when Gu Xin Yan wanted to ask him a little about it, he would suddenly start shouting and screaming indiscriminately, to cower in the corner of his bed as he shook and trembled.
When Lin Hao Yu had just come into the Cloudy Brook Academy, he had been highly spirited and full of mettle. But what he came to encounter after was endless terror and fear, having been repeatedly beaten to a pulp by Qiao Chu, and then frightened completely out of his wits by the events today. It caused him to just suddenly snap and truly went mad.
He would never in his dreams ever have thought that he would come to such a sorry end.
Gu Xin Yan was completely helpless against Lin Hao Yu’s condition and even after having asked the Cloudy Brook Academy’s teachers from the Medical faculty to treat him, it had been to no effect. Hence, she could only leave him with his insanity as he hid inside his room, refusing to come out.
Left with no other choice, Gu Xin Yan had to write a letter to the Blood Fiend Palace, to ask for someone to come bring Lin Hao Yu back for treatment .
Towards Lin Hao Yu’s situation, the Cloudy Brook Academy did not make things difficult and quickly agreed to release the disciple for him to return home.
But they would need to erase Lin Hao Yu’s identity as a disciple of the Cloudy Brook Academy.
Afterall, with the condition that Lin Hao Yu was in, he would no longer be able to continue any cultivation training within the Cloudy Brook Academy anymore.
Volume 17
Chapter 1626: “Mischievous Old Man (1)”
That night’s bloody battle, had not seemed to have left any mark on the Cloudy Brook Academy. Besides knowing that Lin Hao Yu had lost his mind, their people did not know of anything else. After a period of heated debate, the youths then all fell back into their regular pace of life in there, continuing to learn and cultivate, working towards their goal.
And Jun Wu Xie cultivated as she had been doing at the Spirit Mastery faculty, receiving instruction from Su Ya.
Su Ya’s emotional state seemed to be a little distraught, her person having been a little more indolent. Although she still drank herself tipsy every day, but she spoke quite a lot less, most of time contented enough to hole herself up within the wine cellar to nap instead.
Jun Wu Xie did not dare to ask her about it and could just proceed with her cultivation on her own.
Jun Wu Xie was very much used to cultivating quietly and peacefully like this, but someone just had to come shatter that tranquility she was enjoying.
It was just past noon and Jun Wu Xie had just finished lunch. She was about to go continue with her cultivation training when a figure stood conspicuously within the Spirit Mastery faculty.
“Hey! Little one! I’m here again!” The little old man was all smiles as his highly eager eyes looked at Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie’s steps suddenly halted.
[What was this fella doing here again! ?]
Having thought that she had successfully gotten rid of the little old man, Jun Wu Xie suddenly felt a headache coming on in her head when she saw the little old man.
Truth to be told, she really wasn’t good in communicating with a little old man whose mind wasn’t working that well.
Especially when the other party was so eagerly desiring to milk for more medical knowledge from her.
Jun Wu Xie’s steps faltered only for a slight moment before she reverted back to normal, merely giving the little old man just one glance but not saying a single word.
The little old man however seemed to have gotten used to Jun Wu Xie’s chilly demeanor and was absolutely beaming happily on his own as he came over in approach with a laugh, with a medicine bottle clasped in his hand.
“Heh heh. Little one, the thing you gave me before is really great. I have just successfully concocted this medicine and I have immediately brought it here for you to see it. Hurry up and help me see whether it is just so perfect?” The little old man completely ignored Jun Wu Xie’s reaction but had instead shoved the bottle of medicine straight into Jun Wu Xie’s hand, his mouth continuing to praise his “outstanding achievement” incessantly.
Jun Wu Xie was speechless as she stared at the absolutely gleeful little old man. She had already detailed every single step required in concocting that medicine on those pieces of parchment and basically anyone who could read and follow those instructions would not have any problem completing it. Hence, she did not think that this was anything to be proud of at all.
But seeing the highly fervent eyes of the little old man, Jun Wu Xie felt that if she did not say something, the little old man would not spare her from this.
Left with no choice, Jun Wu Xie could only make herself open up the bottle of medicine, and pretend to take a whiff.
There wasn’t much of a problem with the quality of the medicine, it was as it should be.
“Adequate.” Jun Wu Xie said in a disinterested tone.
But that one highly mediocre word of assessment from her caused the little old man’s face to shine with absolute delight. He took the medicine bottle from Jun Wu Xie’s hand and his hands did not know he should hold that highly precious bottle as his face just beamed with smiles, the corners of his mouth almost reaching his ears.
“I’ve said it before! How could I possibly be unable to concoct this absolutely perfect medicine! And I’ve really done it! I am really humbled by the kind of prodigious talent I have been blessed with….. I have merely taken three tries and I have already succeeded! !” The little old
man’s voice was filled with pride.
But Jun Wu Xie almost vomited out a mouthful of blood!
[Three times!]
She had already written down every single step in such great detail that even a child would be able to succeed at concocting it! And this little old man had needed three tries before he was able to succeed…..
Volume 17
Chapter 1627: “Mischievous Old Man (2)”
Jun Wu Xie could be said to have completely given up all hope on the little old man.
With such a lack of aptitude, it was better that he distanced himself from practicing any form of Medicine.
Jun Wu Xie heart was almost crumbling but the little old man did not seem to think that there was any problem as he carefully cradled the medicine bottle in his hand in glee, and his mouth continued to prattle on with unabashed praise for himself, unrestrained and unbridled, like the success of having concocting this one lone bottle of medicine, was enough to elevate him to the very pinnacle of his life, his ability eradicating all need for physicians, like his existence was equal to a unparalleled miracle doctor.
Just as the little old man was going on and on singing high praise of himself, a deep low voice suddenly rang out. “I had thought why I could not find you anywhere. So you have come to Little Ya’s place to disturb her peace. What? You’re not afraid that Little Ya would throw you out?”
In the instant that the voice sounded, the smile on the little old man’s face stiffened slightly. Jun Wu Xie turned to look in the direction the voice had sounded from and saw a white haired old man standing at the door, his face showing the benign smile that a proper elderly person should be exhibiting.
The eyes of that elderly man were clear, his countenance eminently outstanding. It was not difficult to see the peerless magnificence he must have possessed in his younger days as even when he was now wizened with a head full of white hair, it did not diminish his outstanding looks in the slightest.
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